Creating Interactive Olap Applications With My Sql Enterprise And Mondrian Presentation

Creating Interactive OLAP Applications with MySQL Enterprise and Mondrian Julian Hyde: Chief Architect, OLAP, at Pentaho and Mondrian Project Founder Wednesday, April 16 th 2008

Agenda Pentaho Introduction Mondrian features and architecture Schemas and queries olap4j Roadmap Case Studies Business Intelligence suite Q & A

Pentaho Introduction World’s most popular enterprise open source BI Suite 2 million lifetime downloads, averaging 100K / month Founded in 2004: Pioneer in professional open source BI Management - proven BI and open source veterans from Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, JBoss, Oracle, Red Hat, SAS Board of Directors – deep expertise and proven success in open source Larry Augustin - founder, VA Software, helped coin the phrase “open source” New Enterprise Associates – investors in SugarCRM, Xensource, others Index Ventures – investors in MySQL, Zend, others Widely recognized as the leader in open source BI Distributed worldwide by Red Hat via the Red Hat Exchange Embedded in next release of OpenOffice (40 million users worldwide)

What is OLAP? View data “dimensionally” i.e. Sales by region, by channel, by time period Navigate and explore Ad Hoc analysis “Drill-down” from year to quarter Pivot Select specific members for analysis Interact with high performance Technology optimized for rapid interactive response

Mondrian features and architecture

Key Features On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes automated aggregation speed-of-thought response times Open Architecture 100% Java J2EE Supports any JDBC data source MDX and XML/A Analysis Viewers Enables ad-hoc, interactive data exploration Ability to slice-and-dice, drill-down, and pivot Provides insights into problems or successes

How Mondrian Extends MySQL for OLAP Applications MySQL Provides Data storage SQL query execution Heavy-duty sorting, correlation, aggregation Integration point for all BI tools Mondrian Provides Dimensional view of data MDX parsing SQL generation Caching Higher-level calculations Aggregate awareness

Open Architecture Open Standards (Java, XML, MDX, XML/A, SQL) Cross Platform (Windows & Unix/Linux) J2EE Architecture Server Clustering Fault Tolerance Data Sources JDBC JNDI Cube Schema XML Cube Schema XML Cube Schema XML J2EE Application Server Mondrian Web Server JDBC RDBMS cube cube cube File or RDBMS Repository RDBMS JDBC JDBC JPivot servlet Viewers JPivot servlet XML/A servlet Microsoft Excel (via Spreadsheet Services)

A Mondrian schema consists of… A dimensional model (logical) Cubes & virtual cubes Shared & private dimensions Calculated measures in cube and in query language Parent-child hierarchies … mapped onto a star/snowflake schema (physical) Fact table Dimension tables Joined by foreign key relationships

Writing a Mondrian Schema Regular cubes, dimensions, hierarchies Shared dimensions Virtual cubes Parent-child hierarchies Custom readers Access-control  <Dimension name="Region"> <Hierarchy hasAll="true“ allMemberName="All Regions"> <Table name="QUADRANT_ACTUALS"/> <Level name="Region" column="REGION“ uniqueMembers="true"/> </Hierarchy> </Dimension> <Dimension name="Department"> <Hierarchy hasAll="true“ allMemberName="All Departments"> <Table name="QUADRANT_ACTUALS"/> <Level name="Department“ column="DEPARTMENT“ uniqueMembers="true"/> </Hierarchy> </Dimension> (Refer to http://mondrian.pentaho.org/documentation/schema.php )

Tools Schema Workbench Pentaho cube designer cmdrunner

MDX – Multi-Dimensional Expressions A language for multidimensional queries Plays the same role in Mondrian’s API as SQL does in JDBC SQL-like syntax … but un-SQL-like semantics SELECT {[Measures].[Unit Sales]} ON COLUMNS, {[Store].[USA], [Store].[USA].[CA]} ON ROWS FROM [Sales] WHERE [Time].[1997].[Q1] (Refer to http://mondrian.pentaho.org/documentation/mdx.php )

OLAP APIs OLAP APIs that failed: OLAP Council’s MDAPI and OLAPI Sun’s JOLAP OLAP APIs that succeeded: Microsoft’s OLE DB for OLAP, ADOMD, XMLA Mondrian has an API for creating running MDX queries: Powerful and intuitive Features the MDX language Used by Mondrian’s XMLA provider, JPivot, other clients But it’s Mondrian-only

The problem with APIs Client 1 Server 1 Client 1 Server 1 Client 2 Server 2 Client 3 Server 3 API 1 API 2 API 3

The problem with APIs #2 Client 1 Server 1 Client 1 Server 1 Client 2 Server 2 Client 3 Server 3 API 1 API 2 API 3

The problem with APIs – the solution Client 1 Server 1 Client 1 Server 1 Client 2 Server 2 Client 3 Server 3 Driver 1 Driver 2 Driver 3 Common API

olap4j olap4j aims to be the “JDBC for OLAP” An extension to JDBC Also inspired by ADOMD.NET Implementations for many OLAP servers Enable one client to work against many servers Break the ‘lock-in’ Encourage more businesses to ‘take a chance’ on open-source Backed by: Companies: Jedox, JasperSoft, Loyalty Matrix, LucidEra, Pentaho, Tensegrity, Tonbeller AG Projects: Halogen, JPivot, JRubik, Mondrian, OpenI, PALO Community at SourceForge.net

olap4j connecting to mondrian in-process import org.olap4j.*; Class.forName("mondrian.olap4j.MondrianOlap4jDriver"); OlapConnection connection = DriverManager.createConnection( "jdbc:mondrian:Jdbc=jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart;" + "JdbcUser=foodmart;JdbcPassword=foodmart;" + "Catalog=/WEB-INF/queries/FoodMart.xml;" + "Role='California manager'"); OlapConnection olapConnection = connection.unwrap(OlapConnection.class); OlapStatement statement = olapConnection.createOlapStatement(); OlapResult result = statement.execute( "SELECT {[Measures].[Unit Sales]} ON COLUMNS,\n" + " {[Product].Members} ON ROWS\n" + "FROM [Sales]");

olap4j connecting to SQL Server Analysis Services via XMLA import org.olap4j.*; Class.forName("org.olap4j.driver.xmla.XmlaOlap4jDriver"); OlapConnection connection = DriverManager.createConnection( "jdbc:xmla:Server=http://marmalade/xmla/msxisapi.dll;" + "Catalog=FoodMart;" + "Role='California manager'"); OlapConnection olapConnection = connection.unwrap(OlapConnection.class); OlapStatement statement = olapConnection.createOlapStatement(); OlapResult result = statement.execute( "SELECT {[Measures].[Unit Sales]} ON COLUMNS,\n" + " {[Product].Members} ON ROWS\n" + "FROM [Sales]");

olap4j architecture Client: In-process XMLA HTML AJAX Server: Mondrian in-process Mondrian via XMLA Microsoft SSAS via XMLA Other OLAP server via XMLA Other OLAP server via dedicated olap4j driver

olap4 components Driver management Session Metadata MDX Transform & layout

olap4j/mondrian roadmap 2006 September olap4j 0.5 (draft) 2007 October – olap4j 0.9 (beta) 2008 February – olap4j driver for XMLA 2008 July – olap4j 1.0 2007 August – mondrian 2.4 2008 March – mondrian 3.0 featuring olap4j API 2008 August – mondrian 3.1 featuring olap4j 1.0 API

mondrian 3.0 features olap4j API Rollup policy Aggregate roles Allow distinct-count measures to be aggregated Improve dimension sharing JNDI in connect string Over 90 new MDX functions

Halogen Pentaho incubator project Slice/dice OLAP client Built using GWT  AJAX Built on olap4j  portable across OLAP servers

Case Study: Frontier Airlines Frontier Airlines Key Challenges Understanding and optimizing fares to ensure Maximum occupancy (no empty seats) Maximum profitability (revenue per seat) Pentaho Solution Pentaho Analysis (Mondrian) Chose Open Source RDBMS and Mondrian over Oracle 500 GB of data, 6 server cluster Results Comprehensive, integrated analysis to set strategic pricing Improved per-seat profitability (amount not disclosed) Why Pentaho Rich analytical and MDX functionality Cost of ownership “ The competition is intense in the airline industry and Frontier is committed to staying ahead of the curve by leveraging technology that will help us offer the best prices and the best flight experience…. [the application] fits right in with our philosophy of providing world-class performance at a low price .”

Pentaho at Loma Linda University Health Care Leading Healthcare Provider Key Challenges Providing analytics for billing and operations supporting 500,000 patients and 600 doctors Pentaho Solution Pentaho Analysis Subscription Selected over Business Objects and Cognos Microsoft Windows Server with SQL Server Integrated with LDAP and Active Directory Results Comprehensive analysis of time periods, services provided, billing groups, physicians Centralized, secured, consistent information delivery (versus prior Excel-based system) Ability to drill and analyze down to the individual patient level Why Pentaho Open standards support and ease of integration Cost of ownership “ Pentaho Customer Support has been exceptional . This is a strategic application at LLUHC, and working with Pentaho has accelerated our deployment and improved our overall application delivery .”

Business Intelligence Suite Mondrian OLAP Analysis tools: Pivot table Charting Dashboards ETL (extract/transform/load) Integration with operational reporting Integration with data mining Actions on operational data Design/tuning tools

Pentaho Open Source BI Offerings All available in a Free Open Source license

A Sample of Joint MySQL-Pentaho Users “ Pentaho provided a robust, open source platform for our sales reporting application, and the ongoing support we needed. The experts at OpenBI provided outstanding services and training, and allowed us to deploy and start generating results very quickly .” “ We selected Pentaho for its ease-of-use . Pentaho addressed many of our requirements -- from reporting and analysis to dashboards, OLAP and ETL , and offered our business users the Excel-based access that they wanted.”

Next Steps and Resources Contact Information Julian Hyde, Chief Architect, [email_address] More information http://www.pentaho.org and http://mondrian.pentaho.org Pentaho Community Forum http://community.pentaho.org Go to Developer Zone Discussions Pentaho BI Platform including Mondrian http://www.pentaho.org/download/latest Mondrian OLAP Library only http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=35302

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